Dear Dispatch Members,
Starting this month we will be offering a new series, exclusively for members of The Dispatch, called The Dispatch Monthly Mailbag. We hope this will allow members of The Dispatch community to get to know all the staff better—especially the ones you don’t see often.
How will this work? At the beginning of every month, we will send an email featuring a different member of the Dispatch staff and suggest question topics based on their areas of expertise. Members can submit questions in the comments section of the post over the following two weeks. Then, a week later we will send out another email from that month’s staff member with many of your questions answered.
Harvest Prude will be taking your questions in the inaugural edition of The Dispatch Monthly Mailbag.
Harvest is a former Poynter-Koch fellow and reporter for The Dispatch. Her reporting focuses on Congress, campaigns, and important policy issues facing the country. She regularly writes for The Sweep and Uphill. While not working you can find her reading classic literature or fantasy/science fiction.
Harvest’s suggested topics:
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Capitol Hill reporting in the era of congressional gridlock (as well as what it was like to be inside the Capitol on January 6)
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Supreme Court confirmation hearings (she’s covered the hearings for Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson)
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Campaign reporting, faith-based nonprofits, churches, and immigration and refugee issues
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Her recent two-week stint in Israel and the United Arab Emirates
Leave your questions for Harvest in the comments and look out for an email with all of her answers after August 22.
Please note that we at The Dispatch hold ourselves, our work, and our commenters to a higher standard than other places on the internet. We welcome comments that foster genuine debate or discussion—including comments critical of us or our work—but responses that include ad hominem attacks on fellow Dispatch members or are intended to stoke fear and anger may be moderated.